Abstract

FONNEGRA, Claudia Patricia. War and time in Semejante a la noche, of Alejo Carpentier. Co-herencia [online]. 2009, vol.6, n.11, pp.183-206. ISSN 1794-5887.

In the Light of the importance that Arendt, Ricoeur y Nussbaum grants to literature in order to analyze characteristic problems of human condition, in this essay is studied how and why in "Semejante a la noche", a short story written by Alejo Carpentier, is proponed a review of the just war category, which is articulated with a deterministic perspective of history and time.

Keywords : Literature; imagination; just war; warrior; time; history.

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